This case is about slaves or slavery.
| Year: | 1856 |
| Citation: | 10 Md. 268 |
| Jurisdiction: | Maryland |
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| Short Summary: | Interpreting the Act of 1837 that a railroad company is liable for "any horse, cow, mule, hog or sheep, et cetera, killed or injured by engines." Concluding that the legislature clearly did not intend to include slaves in the statute as it would not have been difficult to include slaves and because of the ability of slaves to avoid damages unlike the other property mentioned. |
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| Full name: | Isaac Scaggs vs. Baltimore and Washington Rail Road Company |
| Court: | Court of Appeals of Maryland |